It's been 20 minutes. 20 minutes since they took away her baby. 20 minutes of the start of the ten-day period of waiting. Waiting for him to wake up after surgery, waiting for him to start feeding from a bottle, waiting for him to get strong enough she can hold him, waiting for him to finally start breastfeeding, and finally waiting for him to heal so he can go home. Kate's already been to the bathroom and finally had a bite to eat. Her next mission was to get a shower. It's going to take them about four hours to do the surgery and then about an hour for Arejay to wake up. She won't be able to hold him for a few days so she's going to take this time to make sure they have everything they need and ready to go so they can bring him home. It's ten days away from so they have plenty of time but Kate is not one for last minute stuff. Throwing her legs over the bed Castle reaches his arms around his wife and helps her up from the bed. Carefully the two walk to the attached bathroom and turn on the water for the shower so Kate can get cleaned off. Castle has already stripped and is helping Kate when he reaches in quickly to feel the water. It's warm and ready to go just as Kate slips off her panties. Carefully Castle helps the two in the shower and under the water. It's just then that Castle's having a flashback to when he was having is seizure study, and Kate was the one helping him when he got shampoo in his eyes. The two are still in shock as they stand in the shower. Kate yawning and Castle pretty much staring at the wall for five minutes.

"We have a baby, Kate, a BABY!" Castle exclaims letting the water hit the.

"We do, I can't believe it." She smiles and kisses her husband's neck in the shower. The two finish about 20 minutes later, and Kate puts on a simple shirt and some sweats. She's about to sit down to pump when a nurse comes in to brief them on the surgery.

"Just got word they are about an hour out, I was told you're son is doing great, He should recover in no time." She smiles at the couple has Kate climbs back into the bed. Kate is happy at the words. Happy to know her son is doing ok. She can't wait to see him and hold him. Kate has pulled out the breast pump as the nurse had stuff she wanted to say but changes her mind and leaves. Kate really wants to breastfeed Arejay and pumping now will be her only hope to get him to feeding later. She knows it will jumpstart everything, and she will have plenty of back stock so they can feed him while he's in the NICU. She's completely done about an hour later and decides to take a quick nap with Castle before Arejay gets out of surgery. She wants to be there when he wakes up.

The two have just gotten up when a nurse comes into their room to tell them Arejay has just come out of surgery and will be moved to the NICU. Kate is up quick because she wants to see him and see him now. Helping her up Castle is holding his wife as the two walk towards the NICU past the nursery where all the healthy babies go to stay for the few days they are here. Castle has his arm around Kate as they finally make it to the doors of the NICU. Castle and her sanitize before she scans her wristband and the doors open to let the two in. There's a nurse waiting to take them over to his bed where the surgeon is waiting.

"Katherine, Richard." The doctor starts picking up Arejay's chart and looking it over.

"Surgery went great, and it looks like he will make a full recovery, we just won't know the extent of his injuries until we do an MRI a few months down the road." He explains smiling softly as Kate looks down at her son asleep in the little crib in front of her. He's sleeping on his stomach a large patch of gauze over his incision with a blanket on one side to prevent any unnecessary movement from him. He's not on oxygen thankfully, but he's got a feeding tube down his nose just for the first day or two to kick start him off on the right track. She wants to touch him, but she decides to wait and let the doctor finish.

"If all goes to plan, after two days he can be held and then hopefully you can try breastfeeding him and then about six days after that if everything with his scar checks out he can take his car seat test. If he passes that he can go home." The surgeon smiles at the couple again as Kate looks up. One had holding Castle's.

"Can I touch him?" She asks as her fingers trace the edge of the crib softly.

"Yes, just not past the bandage."

"He should be awaking soon so I'll leave you two with him, if you have any questions just ask one of the nurses." He says before putting down the babies chart ad walking out. Kate can't help but be happy at the good news. She's sad though she can't hold him right away but that she can deal with. Reaching over the side Kate strokes a hand on the little babies hair softly tracing it with her fingers.

"Hey, there little guy." Kate turns to see Castle talking to their son in front of them.

"I'm glad to see you are all right." He smiles reaching in to feel the child's hair after Kate had let go. He's stirring slightly as The two watch his eyes slowly blink open, and he lets out a wail. Kate jumps slightly at the noise, and it kills her that she cant comfort him. A nurse comes over quickly and ups his pain meds just ever so slightly.

"Arejay baby, don't cry mommy and daddy are right here." Kate coo's sadly stroking the babies hair again. The nurse leaves and Kate is left with crying baby she can't pick up and hold. She's told it's just the pain meds wearing off from the surgery and that they have bumped them up a bit to hopefully help. That's all they can do for now. Kate's standing there not sure what to do when Castle lets go of her hand and moves to the other side of his crib and leans in close quietly singing in his ear.

"Baby mine, don't you cry, Baby mine, dry your eyes," He's quiet as he sings, but it seems to be working as by the time Castle finishes the song the little guy's asleep. Kate is overwhelmed by emotion now having just watched her husband sing their son to sleep. There's not much they can do now but just watch him. Make sure he's alright.

"I know the kids cant come in here but I think we should bring them to the window to at least see him." Kate says a few minutes later as she's playing with the little guys hair again. She can't get enough of him.

"Alright I'll go call Alexis." Castle smiles and leaves Kate with their soon. She's agreed to bring them and and within the hour all four of her kids are now eagerly waiting to see which baby in the window was their brother. Kate comes out moments later a huge smile on her face as she carefully hugs her kids.

"See that baby in front with the band aid on his owie?" Kate points out Nate having his face pressed against the glass.

"Thats your brother Arejay." She smiles as Victoria is reaching up to be held. She can't see and she's complaining. picking her up Kate helps the girl on her hip and points out Arejay again for her. Kate's watching her daughter as she looks through the window, she's not sure what Victoria thinks but she hopes its good.

"Thats a big owie momma." Sidney says standing on his tiptoes to he can get a better look.

"It sure is buddy, but it will get better." Kate sighs softly setting Victoria down as she was getting a little to heavy a little to fast.

"I will make sure when he gets home you all get a chance to hold him, but for now he has to get his owie to heal before we can hold him." She explains leaning over to give Sidney a kiss on the head. he's itching to be picked up but Kate knows she can't.

"He's beautiful." Alexis smiles standing next to her father as they both watch the baby sleep.

"Thank you lex." He grins watching as a nurse comes over to carefully change his diaper.

"Ok kiddo's mommy has to take a nap, you go home and have fun with Alexis and Pi, we will see you tomorrow." Castle says watching the four get all sad and mopey in front of him.

"I promise ok?" He sighs and gives each one of them a hug before watching Alexis take over and usher then down stairs.

"I know you don't want to take you're eyes off him but thesis out time to get in some sleep before he is home and we dont get any." He chuckles and kisses his wife softly taking her hand.

"Come on, I'll help you to bed."

Kate sighs and nods knowing he was right. She needed to get as much sleep as she could before he came home. That way it wouldn't be such a shock. The two go in one last time and say good night before leaving and heading back to Kate's room. Castle helps the two change and get into bed. He lets out a yawn before snuggling into his tired wife and falling asleep. Kate's happy, her son is doing so well and even though this is a long road she knows it will all be worth it.